The United States have joined 'the club of non-signatories of the Paris Climate Deal.' Two other members of this three-member club are Syria and Nicaragua. Thanks to the 45th President of the United States Mr. Donald Trump, the media mogul. He has pulled the country out of the deal. The second largest carbon emitter of the world, the US, will not adhere to the plan to reduce 26% to 28% of the greenhouse emission by 2025.

In just a few weeks, the world will adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. For my country, Bangladesh, the goal of combatting climate change and its impacts is crucial, as we are on the frontline of this global threat.

Global warming alarmists must be shaking their heads in disbelief. Just when they felt they had the stars aligned to push their anti-free enterprise/capitalism agenda on the international stage and claim the power they crave, the climate and scientists have begun to turn against them.

Sidney, Australia has snow for the first time since 1836. To put this in perspective, in 1836, Andrew Jackson was President of the United States, Victoria was a year away from being crowned Queen of England upon her 18th birthday, and Davey Crockett met his heroic end at the Alamo.

Bangladesh is moving ahead with a project to formulate the Delta Plan 2100. Apparently, this is a good idea. After all, Bangladesh is primarily a delta, and a long term plan for its land and water use may well be called “Delta Plan 2100” to emphasise its long term nature. However, there are many questions about the way this plan is being formulated. Two important questions: after forty-five years of independence and sixty years of water development experience why does Bangladesh need a delta plan formulation process that is heavily dependent on foreign advice and financing? Second, is the Dutch experience most relevant for formulation of the delta plan for Bangladesh? We consider below these two questions very briefly.

If you haven’t been paying attention, I don’t blame you for at first not believing this. After all, companies go to great lengths to green wash their image and present themselves as progressive and environmentally responsible, even while they turn your land to deserts and your oceans into dead zones. Unfortunately, as Mark Twain once famously said: “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

The truth is that our current system allows pretty much every corporation to externalize both environmental and social costs. In this article, we won’t even be touching on social costs. If you don’t know what cost externalization is, you can imagine it as making someone else pay part or all of your costs. For example, BP externalized the environmental costs of the Deep water Horizon disaster by consuming all of the profits but making the government pay for anything beyond the most shoddy and superficial attempts at stopping the crisis.

Ancient priests used water for healing. The Greek Island of Crete, which is the site of Greek God of healing, and other such temples in the world, had always been situated near freshwater sources. However, the mega dams/barrages built in the 20th century (such as 1970s Farakka barrage, 1990s Gazaldoba barrage and more recently the Three Gorges dam, as well as the hotly-debated and proposed Tipaimukh dam) are threatening the freshwater need of millions of people and wildlife. The situation is already too painful and dire for millions of people inhabiting the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin.